When I first started reading up on Brikwars I assumed it was a chaotic universe with no real consistency, in order to allow you to make whatever the hell you wanted.

Now though I'm seeing that the forums have a canon universe of their own, involving everyone's factions. But I'm struggling to see how everything fits together, the wiki is mostly placeholder pages (all I know about Warhead is that his head is on fire, yet I get the feeling he's a big part of the backstory). Is there somewhere I can find a summary of the current state of affairs? Is someone willing to bring me up to speed? Am I making a prat of myself by even asking these questions?

You don't have to follow the Canon. It is simply for the people who thinks too much chaos is... Well, too much chaos. Warhead is one of the most important people in BW hiatory. He is a oldish man who loves, beer beards and his son, Mini-Warhead.

The wiki is still in the process of migrating over from the old wiki, so things might be placeholdered up for awhile.

Warhead dominated the story for a couple of BRs, but he hasn't been as active lately. Now all the guys who used to be the worst trolls in Warhead's day are the ones taking the story forward, and getting harassed by a new generation of trolls behind them.

The thing about Kanon is that everyone has their own Kanon, and even the "shared" Kanon is interpreted differently every time a new person takes it up.

Natalya wrote:What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of how banned you are.

Itxi wrote:chaotic universe with no real consistency, in order to allow you to make whatever the hell you wanted

Itxi wrote:I'm seeing that the forums have a canon universe of their own, involving everyone's factions. But I'm struggling to see how everything fits together

Answered your own question, mate- it doesn't! What we're observing is what happens when people on the forums build other people's factions in their own brik bins to have someone to fight with in proxy. When that occurs, shared narratives are created- and when someone with the creative impact and story potential of Warhead's Immortals pops up, everyone taps into it.

So yeah, it's a confusing mess. Welcome to Brikwars. Just do what you'd like. It doesn't need to fit anyone's idea of Kanon except your own- after all, the Brikverse is a big place... there's plenty of room to play.

As for Space, I think that's because we tend to associate space-going empires with traveling and encountering other civilizations. Seems to have the most potential for explosions, that's for sure!

It can be a bit overwhelming. Some of the community members have a great deal of personal Kanon and there is a core group of folks that constantly share and crossover. That's a huge part of what makes it fun, that bouncing ideas off of one another. You can wander off to play with your own toys in the corner or you can wander over and toss your bricks in the pile everyone shares. Neither is wrong to do. Once you get used to the ebb and flow again, its not too intimidating after all.

That said, we do have established structures in place for those who don't necessarily want to build their own setting from the ground up. I've been trying, in bits and pieces, to make the Wiki a friendlier place. I think the chaos then and the chaos now that you describe is fundamentally different. There are several people who have worked to do some generalized explaining. Obviously, as with anything, the subtleties and in-jokes are yours to discover but the structures are in place if you want to use them. They will also help toward creating a more fun shared universe.

Naturally, Factions generate the majority of the Kanon. There's nothing for it but to get stuck in and do some reading. Or stick around for awhile and watch/participate. It'll unfold a little more slowly that way but you'll still get the gist. Right now, Piltogg is doing some excellent work gathering together old battle reports and forum battles. You can find links to these in the various years under History. Teknologyis arguably one of the more important categories for structure. You can get a great idea of what things look like and what some general capabilities are. We have some basic categorizationsand various ways to approach tek (where we only had Tek Levels before...and even they've got an update).

But I think most pertinent to your original query is something we're slowly working on now. In addition to the collection of canon that Piltogg is doing now, I've implemented a section for top level storylines that will gather all the disparate components (factions, locations, tek, powers, belief systems, characters, and connections to other stories) and give them shape. Also, Colette has started a thread for folks new to the evolving kanon, here.

Above all, I think the earlier advice is good advice. Please don't feel restricted to what we have down. Too much of that already. Feel free to make new shit up, collaborate, and have fun with it.

As for being a prat. No, not at all. I see no issues with being curious. I think a prat would be someone who dismisses this all out of hand in a shitty manner. Or, on this side, someone who thinks you should have to work to unlock all the Big, Important Super Secrets the community maintains.

Thanks Quantum, that's the sort of thing I was looking for. Cheers everyone else as well, I feel a lot more free to make a faction of whatever the hell I want now, I'm getting the impression that a faction's power is linked to how popular they are with the community and thus how many forum battles they appear in (Kinda like comic book heroes)